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After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.

Iran is back in the news. But how did anarchists understand the Iranian Revolution when it happened? My new three-part series examines anarchist responses to 1979. Check out: tomgoyens.substack.com/p/how-anarch...

You can help to keep Ukrainians safe. By contributing, you are allowing people to survive and helping people to persevere. You are also letting them know that they are not alone, and that you can see a better future, and want to part of it. Please help if you can. snyder.substack.com/p/sky-defens...

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“It remains a sad fact that the vast majority of working people stand idly by and watch the course of events with folded arms, or even help empower the ruling classes in their enslavement of the masses.” --Johann Most, 1876 www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

New contextual essay for our collection, Radicalism and Popular Protest in Georgian Britain, c. 1714–1832. Professor Katrina Navickas explores how the British state responded to democratic and working-class movements throughout 1789—1833. Read the essay at

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Released TODAY in the Working Classics Series 🔥 Rudolf Rocker's 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙤-𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢: 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 is the essential introduction to anarchist theory of the labor struggle. Get your copy now, and check out the other Working Classics while you're at it! www.akpress.org/featured-pro...

PREORDER the first English-language collection of Johann Most’s writing from 1882 to 1906 from AK Press!! www.akpress.org/to-the-impat... Interested in Most's life? Check out my new biography: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

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The third article in Anarchist Studies 34.1 is by Tom Goyens (@tomgoyens.bsky.social) , 'Rudolf Rocker in Exile: Reimagining Anarchism in an Age of Catastrophe, 1933-1958'. (4/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO

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Today in 1906, one hundred and twenty years ago, the German American socialists and later anarchist Johann Most died at age 60 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Read about his remarkable life: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

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Preview our chat with @tomgoyens.bsky.social on his recent biography of German rabble-rouser and anarchist, Johann Most via our patreon membership of $3+/month www.patreon.com/posts/life-i...

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It's getting real! Mock up book cover designs are in for my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" (Liverpool UP, 2026)

Happy Birthday to Johann Most, the German-American agitator & pivotal figure in the development of anarchism in the US & socialism in Germany! Most is the subject of @tomgoyens.bsky.social's new book, available now! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... 📷️: Courtesy of @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

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We are trialling the new, update version of the List of Digitized Anarchist Periodicals (LIDIAP). In the future, it will be easier to suggest new periodicals to add to the database. LIDIAP is an invaluable database for anyone working on the history of anarchism. lidiap.ficedl.info?fbclid=I

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Here is the voice of sportcaster Johnny Most (1923-1993), grandson of anarchist orator Johann Most (1846-1906) www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... youtu.be/2qBws8A01TI

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💥💥💥 DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK! We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share! (This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!) #DefendHighEd ⬇️⬇️⬇️ go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k

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Gonna be on @democracynow.org this morning (8 est)

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Now the script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film is to be published, having been pieced together from drafts, storyboards and sketches, on which he had been working before his death in 1977, at the age of 88. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Boycott Disney everywhere.

Coming in December 2025 from Univ of Illinois Press!!!

if fascists are targeting your community i've written 3 guides to help. plz share! "40 Ways to Fight Fascists" spencersunshine.com/2020/08/27/f... "Six Things to Do If You Become the Target of Online Harassment" www.patreon.com/posts/85220523 A guide to 30 more Guides www.patreon.com/posts/101459...

The release of personally identifiable information that was not relevant to the government’s Title VI investigation was improper. The Trump admin is investigating how the UC responded to claims of antisemitism, not the individuals named in the complaints. The AAUP condemns this move by UC Berkeley.

An appeal to help preserve a unique archive of recorded scientific talks.

The Resistance Is Inevitable. We’re sick & tired of ICE & FBI agents profiling, harassing, & violently arresting our neighbors. #wearealldc Incredible turnout in DC yesterday, including a strong AAUP contingent. @aaupmason.bsky.social @gwaaup.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social

Nice advance in origin-of-life research: scientists get RNA and amino acids to spontaneously attach to each other (RNA aminoacylation). Also, @404media.co is doing good work! www.404media.co/scientists-m...

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A podcast on the path of a mysterious translation published in the first anarcho-communist newspaper run by women in Buenos Aires in 1896. The journey takes us from the Central European region of Silesia to 1840s Paris and the Haymarket massacre in Chicago in 1887. blogs.uoc.edu/anarchist-tr...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

An audio documentary about Colin Ward which tells the story of anarchy in the UK through his life and work, and an alternative history of the 20th century seen from an anarchist perspective. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/cl...